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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:11:10 +1100
From:      Yudi V <yudi.tux@gmail.com>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: minimize use of root account
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> Note that group operator also grants read access to disk devices.
> (The idea is that such users can run backups with dump(8).)
> This effectively means read access to any and all files on those
> disks, regardless of the filesystem permissions.
>

that's good to know, I am the only one using this server, so it is fine.
But just out of curiosity, how to give a user shutdown rights without
giving them read access to all the drives?
-- 
Kind regards,
Yudi



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